Books written by Simon J. Williams

  • Sleep and Society: Sociological Ventures into the Un(known)
    Sleep and Society: Sociological Ventures into the Un(known)

    Adams Parker, S. (1862) Remarks Upon Artificial Teeth. Birmingham: Cornish Brothers. Adams Parker, S. (1863) Case studies in dental decay. British Journal of Dental Science. VI, 84: 263–8. Adie, W.J. (1926) Idiopathic narcolepsy. Brain.

  • The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues
    The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues

    (Reich 1983 [1942]:7). Fourth, and perhaps most importantly for our purposes, this character armour is expressed physiologically through the body, via muscular tension and disturbances of body posture. Fifth, this character armour ...

  • Chronic Respiratory Illness
    Chronic Respiratory Illness

    Drawing upon sociological and psychological sources, and his own detailed research in this area, Simon Williams sesitively portrays the meaning, experience and impact of COAD.

  • Pharmaceuticals and Society: Critical Discourses and Debates
    Pharmaceuticals and Society: Critical Discourses and Debates

    As we have seen, Prozac is not Herceptin and depression is not cancer. ... Notes 1 We by no means attribute the rise in antidepressant use merely to higher rates of depression. ... Karp, D. (2006) Is it Me or my Meds? Living with ...

  • Sleep and Society: Sociological Ventures into the Un(known)
    Sleep and Society: Sociological Ventures into the Un(known)

    Exploring the sociological aspects of sleep and their links to current health debates, this unique text discusses why sleep has been so neglected in sociological literature and examines significant modern issues such as: the 24-hour society ...

  • The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues
    The Lived Body: Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues

    The Lived Body takes a fresh look at the notion of human embodiment and provides an ideal textbook for undergraduates on the growing number of courses on the sociology of the body.

  • Health, Medicine and Society: Key Theories, Future Agendas
    Health, Medicine and Society: Key Theories, Future Agendas

    Taking as its point of departure recent developments in health and social theory Health, Medicine and Society brings together a range of eminent, international scholars to reflect upon key issues at the turn of the century.

  • Health, Medicine and Society: Key Theories, Future Agendas
    Health, Medicine and Society: Key Theories, Future Agendas

    ... health status 54, 56 and race 6–7, 67–86 medicine 148–9, 270–1 see also psychiatry men 6, 28, 64, 159, 161–2, 320, 321–2 see also gender meso-level analyses 14, 237, 238, 244–6 meta-theory, habitus and 73–7 metaphor 146–8, 152–3 micro ...

  • Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures
    Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures

    ... metaphors, models, and feet in American dreams. Ethos, 46(2), 254–274. https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12199 Magnet, S ... Revisiting metaphors in international relations theory. Palgrave Macmillan. Marzano, G., & Novembre, A. (2016) ...